This hour-length CD from 1988 (recently digitally remastered) contains 23 tunes by 11 composers in the Old Timey style featuring the playing of New York City's finest old timey musicians.

The Tunes:

I Think My Brains Fell Out

Walking Past Midnight

Bob On The Job

Bear Claw Necklace (written by Shlomo Pestcoe)

Bustin' Up

(Recorded by Sam Zygmuntowicz

on "Jump When The Trumpets Blow")

Stranger Every Day

Roll them Cotton Bales

Countin' On Hanna

Visitor and a Half

Diamond Joe

She's A Keeper

Shake Your Little Foot

Buying Some Time

Jailbait

John Aaron's Farewell to Cuyahoga

Becker's Bop

Jonah

Gravois Creek Pump

Pick of the Litter

Crossing The Rockies

Clogger Ladies/Flatfeet and Bloodshot Eyes

Pygmies on Pennsylvania Ave

The Light Of Other Days

Several of these tunes are still played in New York in sessions and I have had reports from Ireland that "I Think My Brains Fell Out" was being well used in sessions there. I'd love to receive email from anyone who has encountered these tunes from a source other that this recording - Harry

"Sometimes I think about things like that when I take the music farther and do my own composing. I mean, I compose with the old-time style, but there are differences. In that sense, I would ally myself with people like the Horseflies, because we have the old music as our foundation, and we'll study it assiduously, and we'll painstakingly try to get it perfect, and for years we'll try to play it exactly the way the old-timers used to play it , but then eventually, we're bound to keep on walking. I think what it comes down to is that we're devoted to the old music,, but still we unabashedly admit that we prefer to let be a part of our lives right now, here in the nineteen-eighties. Because when we're playing what we want to play, and living who we are today, we're not really trying to imitate some kind of music. We are the music. That's what keeps it alive. - New Yorker Magazine, July 20, 1987